Autistic addiction advocacy: A lonely endeavour
No one is talking about autism and addiction, so recovering addict and autistic self-advocate David Gray-Hammond is leading the charge and starting the conversation.
No one is talking about autism and addiction, so recovering addict and autistic self-advocate David Gray-Hammond is leading the charge and starting the conversation.
For the Bracken family, the agencies and institutions in place to protect and help them instead terrorized them.
When the holiday joy collides with the difficulties of being overwhelmed.
Comedian, autistic advocate, photographer, and film maker Sophie Lavender gives a Ted Talk about her experience with child abuse and how autism helped her to survive and maintain her sense of individuality– and her sense of humor.
An autistic exploration and breakdown of how sensory overload, meltdowns, and shutdowns feel in the moment and after the fact.
Autistic people are often overlooked when it comes to addiction, as if they are too rule-oriented or childlike to become addicted. It’s time for that to change.
Autistic people struggle with the holiday season for reasons that go beyond just sensory difficulties and limited social batteries. Here’s why.
For me, at least, this, together with the accumulated knowledge, sometimes leads to a deep sadness about the transience of everything that exists and the subjectivity of all our perceptions, assessments and attributions of meaning.
Stuck in that space of not knowing if she is autistic or if she belongs in in either universe, one woman describes her point of flux between two worlds.
I made my mistakes fully aware there would be a response, and I hoped that response would tell me exactly what was wrong with my communication. It wasn’t you who diagnosed me, it was me who came to you for help without my knowing how to ask you for help.
No one is talking about autism and addiction, so recovering addict and autistic self-advocate David Gray-Hammond is leading the charge and starting the conversation.
For the Bracken family, the agencies and institutions in place to protect and help them instead terrorized them.
When the holiday joy collides with the difficulties of being overwhelmed.
Comedian, autistic advocate, photographer, and film maker Sophie Lavender gives a Ted Talk about her experience with child abuse and how autism helped her to survive and maintain her sense of individuality– and her sense of humor.
An autistic exploration and breakdown of how sensory overload, meltdowns, and shutdowns feel in the moment and after the fact.
Autistic people are often overlooked when it comes to addiction, as if they are too rule-oriented or childlike to become addicted. It’s time for that to change.
Autistic people struggle with the holiday season for reasons that go beyond just sensory difficulties and limited social batteries. Here’s why.
For me, at least, this, together with the accumulated knowledge, sometimes leads to a deep sadness about the transience of everything that exists and the subjectivity of all our perceptions, assessments and attributions of meaning.
Stuck in that space of not knowing if she is autistic or if she belongs in in either universe, one woman describes her point of flux between two worlds.
I made my mistakes fully aware there would be a response, and I hoped that response would tell me exactly what was wrong with my communication. It wasn’t you who diagnosed me, it was me who came to you for help without my knowing how to ask you for help.
No one is talking about autism and addiction, so recovering addict and autistic self-advocate David Gray-Hammond is leading the charge and starting the conversation.
For the Bracken family, the agencies and institutions in place to protect and help them instead terrorized them.
When the holiday joy collides with the difficulties of being overwhelmed.
Comedian, autistic advocate, photographer, and film maker Sophie Lavender gives a Ted Talk about her experience with child abuse and how autism helped her to survive and maintain her sense of individuality– and her sense of humor.
An autistic exploration and breakdown of how sensory overload, meltdowns, and shutdowns feel in the moment and after the fact.
Autistic people are often overlooked when it comes to addiction, as if they are too rule-oriented or childlike to become addicted. It’s time for that to change.
Autistic people struggle with the holiday season for reasons that go beyond just sensory difficulties and limited social batteries. Here’s why.
For me, at least, this, together with the accumulated knowledge, sometimes leads to a deep sadness about the transience of everything that exists and the subjectivity of all our perceptions, assessments and attributions of meaning.
Stuck in that space of not knowing if she is autistic or if she belongs in in either universe, one woman describes her point of flux between two worlds.
I made my mistakes fully aware there would be a response, and I hoped that response would tell me exactly what was wrong with my communication. It wasn’t you who diagnosed me, it was me who came to you for help without my knowing how to ask you for help.
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